PHL283H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mein Kampf, Scientific Racism, Law For The Prevention Of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring
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The martin heidegger affair: one of the most important and influential philosopher"s of the 20th century was a card-carrying nazi. He never recanted his nazism, nor did he directly comment on the holocaust from the end of. We think it must be a thing but it is not a thing) our primordial sense of being is historic. We live timed lives (we can"t talk about time when we don"t talk about eternity. We cannot escape time and enter into eternity because existence is irreducibly historic. (if we try to escape from it, we just become distracted. Everything is temporary and going to pass away) being is historic becoming: contingency (identity) You are not in control of events. For example, not dying in a car try your contingent theory: solidarity (community) We are all in the same boat crash: irony (theory) Contingent series of events in life that we have no full control of.
